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Berlin Wall
Berlin Wall
Berlin Wall A barrier between East and West Berlin. It was built by the
GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC in August 1961 in order to stem the flow of refugees from East Germany to the West: over three million had emigrated between 1945 and 1961. The Wall was heavily guarded and many people, especially in the 1960s, were killed or wounded while attempting to cross. As a result of popular protests, it was demolished in 1989.
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Berlin Walls Tumble -- and Rise Up; Reconstruction of Historic German Capital Is Booming, and Drawing Some Boos
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 1/13/1997; ; 700+ words
; For much of this century, Berlin has exerted a unique influence...II and the 99-mile concrete wall that served as fault line between...years after the wall collapsed, Berlin is creating an urban showcase...Spiegel. "The reconstruction of Berlin exceeds what was carried out...
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Can other 'Berlin Walls' fall? Bringing a spiritual perspective to daily life.(THE HOME FORUM)
Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor; 11/8/2002; 700+ words
; ...remember with gratitude the fall of the Berlin Wall. For decades it symbolized the cold...Hamburg and worked once a month in West Berlin as an anchorwoman for public radio...wait again at the border to West Berlin, travel through the border, and...
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 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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THERE'S NO PARALLEL BETWEEN ISRAELI, BERLIN WALLS.(MAIN)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 11/28/2003; 700 words
; ...Israel's `security' wall will lead to more violence...Drawing a parallel between the Berlin Wall and Israel's security...misplaced that it is absurd. The Berlin Wall was erected to keep East...bombers from entering Israel. The Berlin Wall fell when the leaders of...
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Bringing down the new Berlin Walls
Magazine article from: New Statesman; 2/18/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...ghetto uprising and the smashing down of the Berlin Wall. Whereas on the occupied West Bank, Ariel Sharon...said: "It is actions like his that bring many walls down, walls of silence, walls in our minds." In the murdochracies, where...
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 "Post-Tribune (IN)")
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VISIT TO BERLIN WALL IS UNFORGETTABLE
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN); 4/23/1988; 700+ words
; ...freely from one sector of West Berlin to another. Life in West Berlin compares to anything San Francisco...most beautiful in the world. Berlin has numerous such centers...Strasse, which were used for the wall. The windows and doors were...there is now two 10-foot high walls with about a ...
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 "Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)")
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Beyond the Berlin Wall; Twenty years after the Berlin Wall fell, a TV documentary looks at its impact from Welsh and German perspectives. Emily Lambert talks reunification with filmmaker Ifor ap Glyn.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales); 10/31/2009; 700+ words
; ...on in amazement as the Berlin Wall came down before our eyes...an S4C documentary, Wal Berlin, retells the history of...was very conscious of the wall's symbolism. He said...Royal Welch Fusiliers in Berlin the night the wall came...
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ROBERT HEFNER BUYS SECTIONS OF BERLIN WALL
Newspaper article from: The Journal Record; 4/11/1990; ; 700+ words
; ...complete sections of the Berlin Wall, illustrated with...sections of the famous wall. The acquisition...negotiated to go to Berlin with them to look...a portion of the wall, which for 28 years...people from East Berlin would do was buy...
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German businessman fights to keep last piece of Berlin Wall standing.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 1/29/1999; ; 700+ words
; BERLIN _ Ten years ago, the people of Germany toppled the Berlin Wall. Now the city building department wants to finish the...anniversary of the collapse of communism later this year, Berlin is trying to tear down one of the last remaining bits...
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City and tourism officials are working to save the Berlin wall. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 8/18/1993; ; 700+ words
; BERLIN _ A uniformed guard paces alongside a strip of the Berlin Wall. His eyes dart up and down the wall, ever watchful...The guard is there to protect what little remains of Berlin's most infamous landmark. Berlin today is facing an...
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November 9 Marks the 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall.
PR Newswire; 11/9/2009; 700+ words
; ...erected replicas of the Berlin Wall and staged "Freedom Without Walls" campus weeks to mark...significance. Freedom Without Walls campus weeks include...as well as speech and wall art contests, where a trip to Berlin for two awaits as first...about the Freedom Without Walls ...
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Berlin Wall
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security
Berlin Wall █ DAVID TULLOCH In the early hours...between the eastern Soviet Occupied Zone of Berlin and the western American, British and French...wire was used to separate East from West Berlin, but over time this was replaced by concrete...
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Berlin Wall Crisis
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
Berlin Wall Crisis a heightened period of tension between the United States and the USSR...efforts of East Germany's leader to close the sector borders between East and West Berlin, first with barbed wire and then with a concrete wall.
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Berlin Crises
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History
...close the East‐West Berlin sector borders, first with barbed wire, then with a concrete wall. The Western Allies condemned...confrontation of the second Berlin crisis, the “Checkpoint...restrictions on official travel to East Berlin. However, both sides carefully...
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Berlin
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...and Friedrichstadt, while Berlin and C ö lln were formally...14 km – long "tax wall" two years later to enforce...were demolished after 1774, Berlin remained a garrison town. Soldiers...as well as its defenders: Berlin was temporarily occupied by...
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Der Himmel Über Berlin
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...a war movie and Heavens Over Berlin was too romantic." On the...keep adding—about Berlin itself as much as anything else...those last years before the Wall came down, when Potsdamer Platz...outward from the monuments of Berlin itself: the winged Victory...
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